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( books (Hodgson, Greene & Arroyo, Rudhyar, Tyl, Gillig, Al-Rashid. Abulafia) )

yarning
I went to yarn group Sunday and learned one of our members is moving away next week. That is sad. I finished sewing together a bunny and started a new one, and my shoulder didn't protest too much, so that was a nice surprise. I finished the eyes and faces of 2 bunnies yesterday and need to take photos and list them. It felt good to be crocheting again.

healthcrap
I'm so worried about my parents and various other things that it's affecting my sleep. I always have trouble getting into Deep sleep, and lately the fitbit is registering single digit minutes in deep, and I've been having stupid insomnia. I need probably to start doing yoga nidra again, but I'm blocked about it for some reason. Like I'm blocked about Yoga and Pilates. Except that is at least partly due to it being so damned hot. There is little I can do about the things I'm stressing over, and yet. It's so frustrating. ( cut for discussion of weight loss )

house
I've done a fair bit of cleaning/chores today to counteract the worry. And hopefully the insomnia.

astrology
Mercury stationed direct in the wee hours of Monday, so communication and travel snafus are diminishing over the course of the week.

#resist
Monday, 9/01: Workers over Billionaires (#5051)

I hope you're all doing well! <333

cesperanza

I am still here! <3. I'm just so seriously middle-aged, I've got everything on the boil rn. But I'm here if anyone needs me and still contributing to fandom in all the ways I can. You can also reach me at all the places you've always reached me--or other me, or any of the mes you may need.

Things I have enjoyed/am enjoying lately include:

* Killing Eve - I know, I'm super late to Killing Eve, but my sister loves loves loves it and so she asked me to watch it and so I'm watching. First two seasons obviously the best IMO, but she's asked me to see it through so I'm seeing it through.

* Strange New Worlds - its like 100% actual Star Trek! Also it's so fannish - like, look, there are episodes where I can tell the entire reason for the plot is to make sense of one weird moment in ST; TOS and you know what: I RESPECT YOU!! I SALUTE YOU!! YES, GO AHEAD AND FIX THAT ONE MINOR PLOT POINT in TOS, I AM YOUR AUDIENCE, I TOTALLY SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, GET DOWN WITH YOUR BAD SELF. Also, honestly, I will never be tired of Pike cooking, which is a bizarre characterization that I didn't see coming and which nobody I'm trying to pimp to this show ever believes until they see it. Also I would die for Number 1 and La'an. Also Pike cooks with cast iron and open flame in a spaceship. Really: I salute you, show. I am glad you are back! (Especially since no more Disco.)

* Bridgerton/Queen Charlotte - late to QC also, after watching Bridgerton, and thought it was actually really a notch above Bridgerton. (Which I did enjoy - I mean, I respect their commitment to the pleasure principle.) Glad to be caught up there.

* House - yes, yes, I know, I'm really kicking it like it's 2004 around here, but Tiberius, now a teen, had seen bits of it on the interwebs and was like, "Mom, do you know anything about this show House?" and I was like YESSSSS. YESSS I DOOOOO, and your aunt made a great vid of it! Whereupon I showed him astolat's "Bukowski" and we settled in for a watch/rewatch: we like to have a show we're watching together. He's into Trek also so we watched Discovery and Lower Decks and we'll watch SNW as a family now its back, but there's a lot of House to go through and that's a nice option too.

(Side note to those of you who don't have teens: what I did not expect is that Gen Z basically is getting culture in bursts of 10 seconds or less. He's seen literally BITS of House. He will tell me "I know that song--or well, I know 7 seconds of that song." Remember how there would be kids who wouldn't read a novel, they'd just watch the movie? My students now are like--THAT MOVIE IS TWO WHOLE HOURS? I seriously fear for the future, it makes previous claims of attention span deterioriation look PREPOSTEROUS. Holy shit. I swear, I spend so much energy trying not to be too judgy! But I am very judgy! Then again: this moment, this decade, really provokes judginess!! )

(Additional side note: Tiberius is super eye rolly because since middle school all the girls he knows are like "Wow, your mom is SO COOL," --because of course I am! I am really fucking cool, plus I helped to found the AO3 and all of that, so I am a high school rock star, and Tiberius is like, "please God save me from this hell" lol. Cause honestly there really is nothing worse than having a cool mom, I do get that, but I tell him he'll appreciate it later, when I'm dead.)

mrkinch

Because today looked like the best weather this week I was parked at Inspiration Point by sunrise, not that one could tell it was sunrise for the blowing fog. I argued with myself for about ten minutes and then drove down to Loop Road. It was heavily overcast there, too, of course, but the fog and wind were up in the trees, not down on the trail. It was quiet, but that does make it easier to listen for small sounds. I walked out and sat on the bench for a while, listening, and then went down another trail I hadn't been on in years, not entirely sure what I'd find. These are all civilized trails, but I am very limited in how high a step up I can manage. But it was fine and I found the bench I'd remembered. The trail is through riparian habitat, quite lovely and little used, and comes out on the service road up to the top of the Little Farm. The big flycatchers seem to have left, but a Black Phoebe was perched on the back of the bench up there, so that was convenient. The thrushes weren't vocal yet but I did hear a Wilson's Warbler. ( The list: )

Not especially exciting, but another good woodpecker and nuthatch day.:)

mrkinch

We had sun by 10 am, which was very nice. The Swainson's Thrushes seem to prefer sun to overcast more than other birds. There were Swainson's Thrushes and Wilson's Warblers all along the trail, and U found an Orange-crowned Warbler at the bridge, but my best moments were watching a female/juvenile Black-headed Grosbeak eating elderberries. ( The list: )

It was a good woodpecker morning, with Northern Flickers and Downy Woodpeckers as well as Hairy, Nuttall's, and Acorn.

seleneheart

Title: The Ice Prince
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Pairing/Characters: Aragorn/Boromir
Rating: Teen
Summary: One man’s quest to save his best friend who has fallen under a spell.
Warnings: None
Notes: This was originally written in 2004 and posted to Livejournal. This is for

ribby, my fairy tale soul sister, for a promise made a while back. This story has elements picked from many fairy tales, so it is not original, but not like any other.

On AO3: The Ice Prince

On

raselgethi: The Ice Prince

mood sleepy
music Teddybears - Punk Rocker (feat. Iggy Pop)

siria

Vanilla
Interview with the Vampire | Lestat/Louis | ~1700 words

"In which Louis and Lestat engage in respectable, safe, consensual, and utterly carefully negotiated sex."

Because of formatting, this fic is only on AO3.

mrkinch

This morning was just about perfect, a bit of fog to start but almost 60 and no wind. In fact it was a bit too warm by the time I left. It was a three warbler morning, not bad for August, and all singing; I hadn't heard a Wilson's sing in a while, and like a few days ago there was one and possibly two Orange-crowned Warblers singing, but best of all there was a MacGillivray's Warbler! He chipped loudly for quite a while and then began to sing. I was very glad he did because I'm not entirely confident of their chip note. I got a brief glimpse of him, but not diagnostic. ( The list: )

Other highlight was hearing a Common Raven.:) It's been several weeks.

mrkinch

U and I went to Middle Harbor this morning to see who's come back. No peeps but three species of plover, including a Semipalmated Plover and two Black-bellied Plovers, one still in their striking breeding plumage. She needed a Whimbrel for a list she's keeping and there they were! Along with the usual mixed flocks of Marbled Godwits and Willets and a few Long-billed Curlews. The highlight for me was four species of tern: Caspian, incl a juvenile; two Least Terns; a Forster's camped out on the mudflat; and we heard Elegant Terns the entire time but never saw any. Perhaps they were in flight off the point, but that was frustrating. ( The list: )

The local Osprey flew over a few times, and we saw a couple of White-crowned Sparrows. They live year round at the shoreline, but it was still nice to see them.

sage

( books (Sasportas, Greene & Sasportas, Greene, Greene, Hodgson) )

family
the trip to help the parents has filled me with worry and preemptive grief. At least I fixed the tv in a few clicks of the remote and showed her how to use the Fire stick (again). Dad's got his westerns back and she's got her musicals. It's something.

house
my house is a disaster area again, and I'm overwhelmed and daunted by the amount of chores that needs doing. That is not helpful. Must get myself motivated to tackle (some of) it.

#resist
Monday, 9/01: Workers over Billionaires (#5051)

I hope all of you are doing well! <333

siria

( Biosphere )

( Don't Be Bad/Non essere cattivo )

mrkinch

U and I are going out for a while tomorrow morning, so given my energy levels I didn't want to do much today. But staying home is depressing, so I went to Inspiration Trail and sat on the bank in the dip for an hour or so. The wind in the parking lot was fierce but the dip is sheltered, the sky was clear, and I was glad that after a while the trees on the ridge blocked the sun. It was nice just to sit and listen. Best bird I heard was an Orange-crowned Warbler! Singing, no less. They haven't been around, or at least we haven't seen or heard any since June. ( The list: )

Still not much in the way of Corvids. Wonder why.

mrkinch

Apparently I overdid it last week, so this morning I simply walked up the boardwalk to meet U and Chris at Jewel Lake. The chainsaw guys were at work just east of the Lake and the sound of two or three chainsaws was almost overwhelming. Fortunately they took a break about the time U and Chris got down to meet me, so on our walk back to the parking lot we could hear birds. The boardwalk was very lovely, still green, with a big flock of Bushtits and a few other birds. I only heard one Swainson's Thrush and the others heard two. The only excitement was an accipiter zipping over the Lake, too fast for good ID but so tiny I suspect it was a Sharp-shinned Hawk. ( The list: )

The two fledgling Common Ravens are still being excruciatingly annoying. It will be such a relief when they are feeding themselves!

siria

Lemonade
The Old Guard | Joe/Nicky | ~1300 words | Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( 'Why the lemons?' Nicky asked. )

mabiana

I'm sorry for those who are sad about the continueing rainy and cool weather, but I have to say I keep enjoying it. So few people swimming in the early morning, this is so much more relaxing than when every lane has to be shared. Ok, for backstroking it's a bit unpractical when it rains onto my face like yesterday. ;-) And I feel perfectly excused on weekends to just drop onto my couch for the rest of the day and pretend I don't exist for the world until I have to be back at work. I think my balcony flowers are grateful for the weather, too.

dunderklumpen recommended the movie Falling for Figaro in the Hot Pink podcast, and I watched it yesterday. I have a new favourite movie now. :-) I smiled from beginning to end, it was funny, the love story was cute, I liked everyone and there was beautiful singing. It is joining the list of movies to watch on bad days.

While doing a tiny bit of housework today I listened to the Drei Fragezeichen episode (60) that will be subject of tomorrow's Bobcast podcast. We seem to have reached the era where they are awfully bitchy at each other, I'm curious if Fröhlich and Schwind will address that tomorrow. This must have been the point where I decided to take a look at the series again and noped out and didn't go back for decades until I realized it hadn't stayed like that. And of course nowadays I am thinking: is all the aggression an attempt to hide something else? ;-) And surely someone must have used this in a story? But apparently noone did? So strange...

Work is being stressful at the moment, with the change of plans regarding my old branch and people needing to be stood in for. There are also rumours about someone leaving the branch that so often needs me to help out, which please not again and please not right now and why are they just not able to get staff that just does the job and stays. Nothing official yet though, so maybe it will pass us by after all.

siria

Follow the Leader
Biosphere | Ray/Billy | 1700 words

(Also on AO3)

( 'Maybe there'd be a greater chance of successful fertilisation and implantation if we had, you know, a mutual orgasm situation going on?' )

mrkinch

Despite somewhat similar weather, the difference between two days ago and today was huge. I got to the dip about when I normally go through it on the way back to the parking lot so I expected to have much the same list, but no, I listed a little over half the number of species. Granted it was foggy at the north end of the trail so less activity was expected there, but not everywhere. The selasphorous hummingbird was in the same spot, chasing another hummer, though I could not see what species, but that was about it for that part of the trail. Heard no Great Horned Owls of any age, no flycatchers, and the only breeding migrant was one Wilson's Warbler. August, man. ( The list: )

And still no Common Ravens. So strange for them not to be around the parking lot pines.

siria

The Best of Bad Decisions
The Pitt | Trinity Santos/Abby Langdon | ~6800 words | Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for audiencing/betaing. Inspired by this Tumblr post.

(Also on AO3)

( Trinity's one-night stand is more than she bargained for. )

mrkinch

I got started a little after 8 and walked out Loop Road and up Laurel Canyon. It was overcast to start and so quiet! It's that time of year. Activity did pick up by 10 because the sun came out, but no thrushes, no warblers; the only breeding migrants were three species of flycatcher. Almost Fall, I guess. The chainsaws were off to the west a bit, and it sounded like the local coyotes were objecting, but perhaps they were duetting. No particular highlights, unless it was actually seeing the two very raucous and demanding young Common Ravens in the very top of a tall pine, waiting to be fed. ( A short list: )

Today was a struggle. I always hope to go further up the Canyon, but today it was hard enough to get to the usual place.

mabiana

So, some complete idiot set the mouse statue in front of the WDR building on fire. WDR is a broadcasting company, the mouse has its own children's show since 1971, so I grew up with it, too. It got heavily damaged before it was extinguished. And then people started to stick band-aids onto the poor mouse's injury, so by now it is covered in band-aids. So, why would someone do that to our mouse, but also, people are lovely. Sniffle. (It will go to mouse hospital on Friday and might in the future be joined by one of its friends, the little blue elephant or the duck, the article says)

One feels so strange when liking something that apparently most of the fandom thought was stupid, doesn't one. Or maybe it isn't most of the fandom by far, maybe it's just the louder part or the part who spoke first, I don't know. And the rest worries about looking stupid if they say, ... well, I liked it? I mean, it's not that I didn't find a few things to critisize, but in general, yes, I had fun listening and reading...

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8/12/2025 Loop Road ->Sylvan Trail

8/11/2025 Tilden Nature Area

Fic: The Ice Prince

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8/6/2025 Middle Harbor Shoreline Park

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